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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Synthesis and Perspectives

Edited by Michel Loreau, Shahid Naeem, and Pablo Inchausti

Price: £70.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-851570-8
Publication date: 19 September 2002
312 pages, 63 line illus, 246x189 mm

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Reviews

'This volume will stand as a benchmark for the field and should be on every ecologist's bookshelf' - Ecology
'Reading this text gives one the impression of being at the beginning of a considerable change in ecological thought and action. Its clarity of thought and scope suggest that, in common with very few other texts, it could well become a classic in its field ... Anybody who takes ecology seriously should read this book!' - TEGnews

Description

The first synthesis of the current debate on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
One of the hottest and most controversial topics in ecology and environmental science, and likely to remain so for several years
Contributions from the leading names in the field

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has emerged as one of the most exciting and dynamic areas in contemporary ecology. Increasing domination of ecosystems by humans is steadily transforming them into depauperate systems. How will this loss of biodiversity affect the functioning and stability of natural and managed ecosystems? This volume provides the first comprehensive and balanced coverage of recent empirical and theoretical research on this question. It reviews the evidence, provides bases for the resolution of the debate that has divided scientists on these issues, and offers perspectives on how current knowledge can be extended to other ecosystems, other organisms and other spatial and temporal scales. It cuts across the traditional division between community ecology and ecosystem ecology, and announces a new ecological synthesis in which the dynamics of biological diversity and the biogeochemical functioning of the Earth system are merged.

Readership: An advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in ecology and conservation biology.

Contents

Contributors

PART I. Introduction

1. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the emergence of a synthetic ecological framework , S. Naeem, M. Loreau, and P. Inchausti

2. The debate on the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning , H. A. Mooney

PART II. Core areas of debate: biodiversity and ecosystem processes in grassland ecosystems

3. Plant divesrity and composition: effects on productivity and nutrient dynamics of experimental grasslands , D. Tilman et al.

4. Biodiversity manipulation experiments: studies replicated at multiple sites , A. Hector et al.

5. Evaluating the relative strengths of biotic versus abiotic controls on ecosystem processes , M. A. Huston and A. C. McBride

6. The design and analysis of biodiversity experiments , Schmid et al.

PART III. New perspectives on ecosystem stability

7. A new look at the relationship between diversity and stability , M. Loreau et al.

8. Do species interactions buffer environmental variation (in theory)? , J. B. Hughes, A. R. Ives, and J. Norberg

9. Biodiversity and stability in soil ecosystems: patterns, processes and the effects of disturbance , P. C. de Ruiter, B. Griffiths, and J. C. Moore

10. Neighbourhood scale effects of species diversity on biological invasions and their relation to community patterns , J. M. Levine, T. Kennedy, and S. Naeem

PART IV. Extending the scope to other systems

11. Contributions of aquatic model systems to our understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning , O. L. Petchey et al.

12. How can marine ecology contribute to the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning debate? , M. Emmerson and M. Huxham

13. Multi-trophic dynamics and ecosystem processes , D. Rafaelli et al.

14. Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the aboveground--below-ground linkages , D. A. Wardle and W. H. van der Putten

15. Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and soil decomposer food webs , J. Mikola, R. D. Bardgett, and K. Hedlund

16. The critical role of plant-microbe interactions on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: arbuscular mycorrhizal associations as an example , M. G. A. van der Heijden and J. H. C. Cornelissen

PART V. Extending the scope to other dimensions

17. Species diversity, functional diversity, and ecosystem functioning , D. U. Hooper et al.

18. Slippin' and slidin' between the scales: the scaling components of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relations , J. Bengtsson et al.

19. Effect of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning in managed ecosystems , J. Vandermeer et al.

PART VI. Synthesis

20. Perspectives and challenges , M. Loreau, S. Naeem, and P. Inchausti

Bibliography

Index

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Michel Loreau, Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris,
Shahid Naeem, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, and
Pablo Inchausti, Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

Links to web resources and related information

Dr Loreau's homepage
Dr Naeem's homepage

More in the same subject area:
Ecological science, the Biosphere
Conservation of the environment
Applied ecology

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